Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-11-26
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


TO keep the lips soft and in good
COLOR bathe them occasionally with
alum-water, followed by glyccrine or
camphor-ice.
Men desiring to be agreeable re-
move the odor of tobacco, which re-
mains after smoking, by a solution oil
thymol. used as Il mouth wash.
There is annually a large amount
Of bogus butter made in the ehurn.
owing TO lack of skill, care and proper
temperature of churning. ~ J. W.T.
! ness.
A mixture of eight pounds corn
meal, three pounds linsecd meal and
six pounds wheat bran. with as much
hay rs Il steer can eat. is an excellent
ration for %fattening.
The occasional washing of the
hands with cornmeal and borax soap,
in tcpid water, helps to keep them soft
and smooth, and glycerine mixed with
lemon juice is excellent to apply ut
night.
-CrackerFruit Pudding.-Si crack
crS pounded fine, one quart OF boiling
milk. one spoonful flour, n cup brown
sugar, six eggs, raisins and currants,
&ll kinds of spice; bake. Mothers
| MagazHes.
10 clean bottles, put into them
some kernels of corn and IA tablespoon
full of ashes; half fill them with water,
and, after a vigorous shaking and rims
ing. you will find the bottles as good
as new. Indianapolis Sentinel.
-Unclean eggs should be washed or
wiped when gathered. The shells are
porous. and pungent filth may pcne-
trate and spoil the meat. Eggs for
long keeping should not be washed,
only wiped.--St. Louis Repabijcam.
Lemon Cakes. -Thrce-fourths of II
pound of flour and two ounces OF butter
rubbed together in II dry state; then
add three-fourths of Il pound Of white
sugar. the juice and rind of onc lemon,
and one egg. Bake in small cakes ON
a tin.-B0Sfon Bndpt.
AS Il rule, all summer pruning
checks growth, and by producing ma
turity of wood and fruit buds, induces
fruitfulness. All winter and early
spring pruning favors growth, i. G.
causes a more cXuberant growth in the
parts remaining. Indianapolis Jour-
nal.
Jelly Pic.-Onc cup Of jelly, two
cups Of sugar, four eggs, half u cup of
sugar and butter, cream the sugar and
butter, add the wcll-bcatcn yclks of the
eggs, then the whites, and last the
jelly; flavor with orange and bake
about ,hrcc-quartcrs Of al hour.-
Exchange,
Poor butter is classified under ten
heads. as follows: Butter with fodder
i~layorS; stable taints; with smoky,
musty flavor; sour, oily butter; greasy
butter; lishy. blnbbcry butter; bitter
butter; strcaked, spccklcd butter;
moidy butter and rancid butter. all of
which, save the fodder iavoring, are
caused by carelrssncSS in milking, and
mi'managemcnt of the batter after
churning. Troy Times.
Plain or Layer Cake.-One half
cupful of butter, one and onc-half cup
fuls of sugar, two-thirls of II cupful Of
sweet milk or water, two hGaping cup
iuls of flour after sitting, thrcc eggs,
n and one-half %teaspoonfuls baking
powder. II t%easpOontul of llayoring.
Stir until very smooth and bake in two
medium sized tins for about half an
hour. II will also make a very hand
some layer cake, -loicdo Bade,
Compelling the cattle and sheep to
| pick over and consume the dry food
from eornstalks is proper enough, SO
| far - il goes, and is economical, but If
they be required to subsist on sucl
food alone the method will prove cx.
travagant. Any Kind of coarse ma.
| 'cr;al inay be fed if grain food be alsc
given to compensate for that which
may be lacking III the bulky food. All
kinds of food may be economically used
il correctly proportional in nutrition,
Troy Times.